George Santayana Quotes on Ethics
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.